Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1986?

868 of the people we track were surely alive in 1986. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1986: Lady Gaga, Rafael Nadal, Agnez Mo, Usain Bolt, Megan Fox, Manuel Neuer, Emmy Rossum and Nathalia Dill.

Died in 1986: Jorge Luis Borges, Simone de Beauvoir, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Andrei Tarkovsky, Cary Grant, Vyacheslav Molotov, Harold Macmillan and Jaroslav Seifert.

  1. Barack Obama25
  2. Donald Trump40
  3. Michael Jackson28
  4. Vladimir Putin34
  5. Ronald Reagan75
  6. Nelson Mandela68
  7. George W. Bush40
  8. Joe Biden44
  9. Elizabeth II60
  10. Salvador Dalí82
  11. Bill Gates31
  12. Jimmy Wales20
  13. Pope Francis50
  14. Shakira9
  15. Steve Jobs31
  16. Bill Clinton40
  17. Basshunter2
  18. Angela Merkel32
  19. Neil Armstrong56
  20. François Hollande32
  21. Cristiano Ronaldo1
  22. Volodymyr Zelenskyy8
  23. Margaret Thatcher61
  24. John Paul II66
  25. Gabriel García Márquez59
  26. Fidel Castro60
  27. Marlene Dietrich85
  28. Mikhail Gorbachev55
  29. Stephen Hawking44
  30. Elon Musk15
  31. Mother Teresa76
  32. Jimmy Carter62
  33. Benedict XVI59
  34. Emmanuel Macron9
  35. Hillary Clinton39
  36. Lady Gagaborn
  37. George H. W. Bush62
  38. Jorge Luis Borges86 †
  39. Nicolas Sarkozy31
  40. Madonna28
  41. Kamala Harris22
  42. Richard Nixon73
  43. Xi Jinping33
  44. Naruhito26
  45. Noam Chomsky58
  46. Simone de Beauvoir78 †
  47. Hugo Chávez32
  48. Muammar Gaddafi44
  49. Sung Jae-gi19
  50. Bob Dylan45
  51. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan32
  52. Pelé46
  53. Muhammad Ali44
  54. J. K. Rowling21
  55. Andy Warhol58
  56. Kofi Annan48
  57. Osama bin Laden29
  58. Akira Kurosawa76
  59. Lech Wałęsa43
  60. Freddie Mercury40
  61. Charles III38
  62. Kim Jong-un2
  63. Gerald Ford73
  64. Diego Maradona26
  65. Eminem14
  66. Beyoncé5
  67. Leo XIV31
  68. Narendra Modi36
  69. Rafael Correa23
  70. Naguib Mahfouz75
  71. Aung San Suu Kyi41
  72. Steven Spielberg40
  73. Michael Schumacher17
  74. Angelina Jolie11
  75. Saddam Hussein49
  76. Benjamin Netanyahu37
  77. Tenzin Gyatso51
  78. Dmitry Medvedev21
  79. Anna Netrebko15
  80. Mark Zuckerberg2
  81. Rafael Orozco Maestre32
  82. Silvio Berlusconi50
  83. Shinzō Abe32
  84. Isaac Asimov66–67
  85. Tim Berners-Lee31
  86. Ingmar Bergman68
  87. Federico Fellini66
  88. Mahathir Mohamad61
  89. Boris Yeltsin55
  90. Ali Khamenei47
  91. Robin Williams35
  92. Jackie Chan32
  93. Kim Il-sung74
  94. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn68
  95. Jacques Chirac54
  96. Guillermo Lasso31
  97. Céline Dion18
  98. Stanley Kubrick58
  99. Roger Federer5
  100. Lana Del Rey1
  101. Marlon Brando62
  102. Alexander Lukashenka32
  103. Hirohito85
  104. Richard Feynman68
  105. Woody Allen51
  106. Tony Blair33
  107. Scarlett Johansson2
  108. Yasser Arafat57
  109. Rafael Nadalborn
  110. Ban Ki-moon42
  111. Arnold Schwarzenegger39
  112. David Cameron20
  113. Linus Torvalds17
  114. Brigitte Bardot52
  115. Hebe Camargo57
  116. Umberto Eco54
  117. Boris Johnson22
  118. Benazir Bhutto33
  119. Jair Bolsonaro31
  120. Diana, Princess of Wales25

The 120 best known of 868 are listed.